A small area located ~25 km east of Olary was taken up to explore mainly for possible buried economic uranium mineralisation, and to a lesser extent for gold and base metals, that may exist there in Palaeoproterozoic basement rocks. No field work...

An assessment of the Late Tertiary Murray Basin shallow marine clastic sedimentary sequence (Loxton and Parilla sands) for heavy mineral sand accumulations has discovered numerous occurrences of economic to sub-economic amounts of heavy minerals...

Exploratory drilling carried out by BHP Billiton (BHPB) during the 2009-10 project reporting year took place at six prospects thought to have good IOCG mineralisation potential, based in part on earlier drilling results and also on refined target...

Exploration for possible economic concealed Beltana mine type stratabound lead-zinc-(silver) mineralisation, and for other diapiric and associated basic igneous intrusion - related base metal and/or gold occurrences, was carried out over a small area...

An area located 30 km south of Port Augusta and covering more than 792 square km east of the main highway between Port Augusta and Whyalla, which falls entirely within part of the Cultana Army Training Area held by the Australian Commonwealth...

Ongoing exploration for economic buried stratiform copper mineralisation within a small area located 97 km east of Lyndhurst under renewed tenure has consisted of detailed, 1:1000 scale geological mapping and surface geochemical sampling, plus...

An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...

Although gold is widespread throughout South Australia, the state has traditionally been, and continues to be, recognised as a minor producer. The 2001-2002 gold production figure of 3.64 t still only represents approximately 1.4% of the total...

A guide to the walking trail within the historic Burra mine site. Burra mine was world famous for the richness of its copper ores and for the first ten years of its life, was the largest mine in Australia.

After placing the Aclare mine within its setting in the early mining history of the Kanmantoo and Callington districts, this historical account ranges widely, for the problems encountered during Aclare's period of operation plus the vicissitudes of...

The proposed Lake Gairdner 'section 12 determination' area has the potential to host significant mineral deposits. The area lies close to two major geological boundaries; to the immediate north is the Yerda Shear Zone, and to the west, the Yarlbrinda...

Palynological analyses of eight drill cuttings samples from Burrungule 1 well, in the onshore part of the Gambier and Otway Basins, show distinctive microfloristic assemblages. The oldest samples are dated as Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), and...

Palynological analyses of 12 drill cuttings samples from the petroleum exploration well Morum 1, which was drilled in 1975 in the offshore part of the Gambier and Otway Basins, show distinctive palynofloral assemblages. The oldest samples are dated...

The Musgrave Province is largely incorporated within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands and includes cratonic crystalline middle Proterozoic basement rocks of the Musgrave Province proper, as well as mantling younger sedimentary rock successions...

In South Australia, Cambrian massive salt deposits of the eastern Officer Basin occur in troughs lying along the western and north-western margins of the Gawler Craton, and are considered to have been deposited in marginal to open marine environments....

The Musgrave Block in South Australia's far North-West has been identified by Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA) as one of the State's most highly prospective regions for mineral exploration, along with the Gawler Craton and...